How to hover on a css ::before element with jQuery?

HTML-CSS
1

i have like this

.test:hover::before
{
background: red;
}

How i can get that show with jQuery combine with .click function?

Thanks.

2

Pseudo elements are not part of the DOM, and jQuery is a DOM manipulation library. So no, not without getting into hack-ey territory.

You can add a class to it on hover with jQuery just fine though, so just do that. Why do you need to use JS for hover though, out of curiousity?